Word: elveden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy & Drugs. Guinness can be grateful for the fact that the Irish have indeed been doing their duty. Making his annual report this week, Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, Viscount Elveden, 28, the sixth Guinness to run the company, was able to announce a $15.5 million profit, nearly double Guinness' earnings ten years ago. Other nations, in addition, are picking up the Irish sense of obligation. Guinness and the company's newer Harp Lager are now marketed the world over; more than $20 million worth is exported annually. Between exports and Guinness brewed in three overseas plants...
...Gate plant is still the company's principal operation, has grown into a 63-acre sprawl that is one of the world's largest breweries. The chairman's job and brewing secrets have since passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden's father was killed in World War II, and today's incumbent took over at 24 from an aging grandfather. Although Guinness became a public company in 1886, it is still family-controlled. Along with Eton-and Cambridge-educated Elveden, eight other Guinnesses sit on the board. Like...